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January 2, 2008

Links dump: NFL playoffs all weekend; Michael Moore likes Edwards; Solar tree; Facebook is so last year...

Wildcard weekend: Let it snow...

Saturday, Jan. 5

Washington Redskins (9-7) at Seattle Seahawks (10-6)
Qwest Field, 4:30 p.m. ET (NBC)

Jacksonville Jaguars (11-5) at Pittsburgh Steelers (10-6)
Heinz Field, 8 p.m. ET (NBC)

Sunday, Jan. 6

New York Giants (10-6) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (9-7)
Raymond James Stadium, 1 p.m. ET (FOX)

Tennessee Titans (10-6) at San Diego Chargers (11-5)
Qualcomm Stadium, 4:30 p.m. ET (CBS)

To the couch!

No endorsement, but...

A candidate who says things like this: "I absolutely believe to my soul that this corporate greed and corporate power has an ironclad hold on our democracy." Whoa. We haven't heard anyone talk like that in a while, at least not anyone who is near the top of the polls.
-- Who Do We Vote For This Time Around? A Letter from Michael Moore.

I especially like this aside to Al Gore:

...getting us to change out our incandescent light bulbs for some irritating fluorescent ones isn't going to save the world. All it's going to do is make us more agitated and jumpy and feeling like once we get home we haven't really left the office.

No photosynthesis, though: Introducing the Solar Tree

The streets of Europe could soon be lit by solar energy due to the fact that a solar tree prototype recently passed a key test phase.

The solar trees went on display for four weeks in October on a busy street — the Ringstrasse — in Vienna, Austria. They were able to provide enough light during the night-time even when the sun did not show for as much as four days in a row.

"The solar cells on the tree were able to store enough electricity in spite of receiving no direct solar light for days at a time because of the clouds...

Hot at the moment: Facebook is so last year - welcome to the hit websites of 2008. Guardian UK.

Change is hard: The Edge Annual Question — 2008: "What have you changed your mind about? Why?" The answers, from scientists and (heavily West Coast) thinkers, aren't as interesting as they might have been had they asked a wider range of people. No politicians, for instance, and most of the women asked seem to be psychologists.

Resolutions on hold: Astrologers tell us Mars is retrograde. You can quit things -- nailbiting, smoking, white foods -- but shouldn't try to start anything. Think about it till the end of the month.

Not one is open source: The 5 most annoying programs on your PC Download Squad

Starts with Acrobat Reader and ends with Outlook, with iTunes, RealPlayer and IE in the middle. Yup.

Hooray for starch? United Nations International Year of the Potato 2008 has nice graphics. Found there, a link to the The Potato Museum.

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